Chapter 417. Granting certain lands to the city of Mendon, Utah, to protect the watershed of the water-supply system of said city

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Chap. 417: Granting certain lands to the city of Mendon, Utah, to protect the watershed of the water-supply system of said city. Chapter 417 45 Stat. 451 1928-04-23 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 1 public Chapter 417.— An Act Granting certain lands to the city of Mendon, Utah, to protect the watershed of the water-supply system of said city.

April 23, 1928.[[H. R. 8724](/us/bill/70/hr/8724).][[Public, No. 308](/us/pl/70/308).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That, upon payment Public lands.Granted to Mendon, Utah, to protect water supply.of $1.25 per acre, there is hereby granted to the city of Mendon, Utah, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to issue patent to the city of Mendon, Utah, for certain public lands for the protection of the watershed furnishing the water tor said city, the lands being described as follows:

The west half Description.of section 12, township 11 north, range 2 west, Salt Lake meridian, 452and containing approximately three hundred and twenty acres, more or less. Valid rights not affected. Sec. 2. The conveyance hereby authorized shall not include any lands which at the date of the issuance of patent shall be covered by a valid existing bona fide right or claim initiated under the laws of *Provisos.*Mineral deposits reserved.the United States: *Provided,* That there shall be reserved to the United States all oil, coal, and other mineral deposits that may be found in the lands so granted and the right to prospect for, mine, and Reversion for nonuser, etc.remove the same: *Provided further,* That said city shall not have the right to sell or convey the land herein granted, or any part thereof, or to devote the same to any other purpose than as hereinbefore described; and if the said land shall not be used for such municipal purpose the same, or such parts thereof not so used, shall revert to the United States and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and empowered to declare a forfeiture of this grant and to cancel the patent issued hereunder after such proceedings as he may prescribe upon a finding by him that the land has not been used for the purpose for which it was granted.

The conditions and reservations herein provided for shall be expressed in the patent. Approved, April 23, 1928.

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